Word: presses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those of a school, though of a higher school than has been supposed by some, notably by one doting father in Pennsylvania, who has written proposing immediately to place his son, now preparing for Harvard, in the school at Athens. The project has aroused much interest in the English press, who watch all proceedings with a jealous eye. The Academy has even flattered the school by a report that already pound20,000 are in its hands, which it proposes to spend outright for buildings and a library. If the school does not receive its full complement of members from...
...Drury seems partial to the college press; his latest brand, a choice cigar of unadulterated "Vuelta Abajo" stock, he has named the "The Harvard Lampoon." They draw well, have an excellent flavor, and will, it is to be hoped, soon rival their namesake in popularity...
...call attention to the resolutions of the Memorial Hall Board of Directors published in another column. For the last three months there has been one continual round of criticism through the college press upon the directors, the board and the service; one table after another has left the hall until only 300 boarders remain. The crisis is at last reached; it is only a matter of a few more boarders more or less which shall decide whether the association shall suspend or continue. A committee of fifty has been appointed to regain the patronage and confidence of the students...
...from the Lampoon that it may perhaps deny that it is a rival of the latter,) and although it can undoubtedly be said without any undue exhibition of local pride that the Lampoon has far surpassed the Spectator in all literary features and in the character of its letter-press in general, yet it must be confessed that the latter often excels the former in the artistic merit and in the humor of its illustrations. A third competitor has now entered the field in the form of the Princeton Tiger ; and although no judgment can fairly be made from...
...reports of the treatment of the Chinese students, which for some time have been going the rounds of the press, seem to us shocking, and serve to show how far behind the rest of the world China is in the matter of civilization. The following, clipped from the New Enterprise of Charlestown may be interesting to our readers who desire to know the fate of those poor students who were recalled by their government from this country, and torn away from the paths of learning and the refining influences of a higher civilization than their...